The system for delivering career development information to the school personnel and 3,500 students in grades 9-12 in the North Hills schools outside Pittsburgh is described. Objectives of the career resource center were to make available career information, assist in its utilization, and provide professional help to students in their career…

Provided is a manual which explains policies and procedures followed in the cataloging, abstracting, and data entry of information on instructional, measurement, training, and prototype materials for the handicapped to be stored in the NIMIS (National Instructional Materials Information System) data base. It is noted that close adherence to the…

The purposes of this document which identifies the dissemination practices of 28 state education agencies are to: provide an up-to-date statement of state dissemination efforts; prepare and distribute these reports at the national conference as a means of encouraging coordination and cooperation; provide a data base upon which various training…

The interim product report on the Career Decision-Making Program describes products from the program under three headings: career guidance units, a Supportive Career Information System (CIS), and evaluation materials. The 15 career guidance units each consist of a counselor/teacher utilization guide, providing suggestions for use, and student…

When the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP) was established in 1972, its first order of business was to assess the extent of the drug problem and to identify the programs available for dealing with it. A decision was made by that office to attempt to provide to management, at both the State and Federal levels, an effective…

The Occupational Training Information System (OTIS), which is in operation in Oklahoma and in a developmental stage in Kentucky, was evaluated. The principle objective of OTIS is to provide the information necessary to formulate educational, manpower, and economic development plans and policies. OTIS consists primarily of a manpower demand…

An effort was made to operate a computer simulation of individualized self-paced instruction concurrently and in parallel with an actual conventional course. The simulation was in effect a management information system for instructors and students, with modifications as they were made by participants. A pilot program was run at Catholic University…

The growing competition between higher education, other levels of education, and other sectors of the economy for limited government funds has made the need for more systematic methods of planning and management of higher education systems and institutions of utmost importance. This document presents a report of a conference whose purpose was to…

In developing a nationwide education information system, the U. S. Office of Education faced two problems common to many countries: (1) How to develop a system for education, a field with little experience in modern information systems; and (2) How to acquaint educators with the system and train them in using its services. This paper reports…

An information retrieval system was developed using technical word occurrences as a basis for classification. A set of words, designated a vocabulary, was selected from the middle range of frequency listing of words occurring in an experimental sample of 94 documents. The selection produced 115 non-function words with technical definition that did…

Managers' having to account for cost of information activities is here to stay. Budgeting is going to become more stringent and imaginative. Costs should not be equated with human values--psychological and subjective--which apparently many managers do, feeling that having to cost information activities is degrading. Some trends are: Buy products…

The design, implementation and operation of the Computer Search Center of IIT Research Institute, an information center to educate and link industry and academic institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems, is described. Format conversion, profile input, search and output programs developed over a two-year period are detailed…

To improve the competencies of professional vocational education personnel responsible for public information programs, 26 participants from 16 states attended a 14-day training institute. Institute objectives were achieved through a variety of activities and presentations by resource speakers, laboratory assignments, case studies, field trips,…

Unesco's Department of Documentation Libraries and Archives was established in 1967. During its first three years of existence, the department organized and gradually established its services. In 1970 it consisted of three divisions: (1) Promotion of Research and International Co-operation in Documentation; (2) Development of Documentation,…

This report outlines a Long Range Work Program consisting of a series of research efforts which, when implemented, will supply the basic components for the planning portion of a cooperative region-wide coordinating and decision-making process. These components are: a planning information system, goals and needs analysis procedure, program analysis…